Tampa International in September 2023

81.0%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 5,700 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 81.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.5% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 0.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 77.5% of the time (5,698 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 80.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.4%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from TPA in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	81.0%	—	76.5%	80.5%
Arrived on time	80.5%	—	76.9%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.6%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.2 min	—	17.0 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	190	—	210	18,978
Scheduled departures	5,700	—	76,797	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,780	31%	80.2%	5.0 min	0.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	986	17%	84.6%	2.4 min	0.6%
AA American Airlines	888	16%	80.2%	9.2 min	0.3%
UA United Airlines	576	10%	82.5%	2.1 min	1.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	568	10%	77.6%	4.3 min	2.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	426	7%	70.0%	18.5 min	2.8%
NK Spirit Airlines	351	6%	86.9%	0.6 min	0.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	60	1%	75.0%	12.4 min	1.7%
MQ Envoy Air	59	1%	81.4%	8.4 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	6	0%	100.0%	-8.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	527	85.0%	3.2 min	0.4%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	229	83.8%	2.8 min	0.0%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	219	77.2%	13.0 min	0.5%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	217	80.6%	7.7 min	0.9%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	217	75.1%	16.2 min	1.8%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	211	80.6%	5.9 min	1.4%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	199	78.9%	4.0 min	1.5%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	197	87.3%	-2.3 min	0.5%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	196	81.1%	1.9 min	0.5%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	189	76.7%	6.3 min	3.2%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	185	72.4%	17.0 min	2.2%
TPA–DCA	Tampa to Washington	185	83.8%	-0.2 min	0.5%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.5%	36.4%	21,447
Late-arriving aircraft	46.6%	38.3%	35,132
National Aviation System	21.0%	19.9%	15,819
Extreme weather	3.6%	5.1%	2,732
Security	0.3%	0.2%	226

75,356 delay minutes on 1,046 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left TPA on time in September 2023?

81.0% of 5,700 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for TPA · methodology · corrections.